Jeremy Hammond
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Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
I opened a project I have been working on today and was greeted with the following message:  I found this odd, so I opened a different project, no problems (all was as I have always set projects up). I got to looking around for anything that could have possibly changed and found this in the transport module. Note the bit rate.  I have always recorded at 44.1. Haven't experimented with changing it, nothing. I know where to make the change if I ever wanted to, but haven't touched it. What on earth could make a project switch sample rates like that? For now I will switch my driver over to 48, but this is very strange. Thanks for any insight...
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/12 23:39:08
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Hi Jeremy . . . welcome to the forum ! For more accurate insights we would need to know more about your system specs and soundcard / driver type. If I understand you correctly, your project sample rate changed "somehow" from 44.1 to 48 ? You say, you got this message when you opened (but not started) the project today. In Preferences - Audio - driver settings . . . what do you have the sample rate setting set for in "default settings for new projects" ?
post edited by noynekker - 2013/03/13 00:28:25
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Jeremy Hammond
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/14 23:52:01
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Hi, thanks for the reply! My system specs are as follows: - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz
- 8G DDR2
- Roland Octa-Capture (software version 1.5), ASIO driver
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
- Win7 SP1 64
- Sonar X1d
- ASUSTeK Motherboard
My default sample rate for new projects is 44100. My Octa-Capture is also set to 44.1. The message popped up on a project I had already done a ton of work on a few weeks ago. I opened it up to do some tweaks and it wouldn't play back. I started a new project, no problem. I opened up projects prior and since with no issues. Then I found that the problem project was set to 48k. I have been using Sonar since version 5 (all producer editions) and have never had a problem like this crop up. Quite the head scratcher... **UPDATE** I disabled the octa-capture in the windows audio settings and was then able to change the Sample rate so I could at least play the project. I still don't understand how this one project got tweaked. Is there a way to convert it back down to 44.1 without much hassle? For now, I will just leave a note to switch the audio settings for this one project.
post edited by Jeremy Hammond - 2013/03/15 00:14:21
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/15 10:42:54
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Jeremy Hammond
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/15 11:44:13
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Good Morning Scott,
That is a good tip. Do you know of a way to prevent Windows from enabling the Octa-Capture in the sound settings? Once I disabled the octa-capture in the windows sound I was able to actually tweak the settings. But as soon as I did, windows re-enabled all the inputs and outputs. The whole time I have the internal card set as default device.
This may be what caused the whole issue to arise. From time to time, I will use the Octa-Capture to record "what you hear" (from say the internet or something) because my internal soundcard lost its ability to do that as soon as I upgraded to Windows 7. The internal card is an Audigy 4, but I don't use it for recording.
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/15 17:40:57
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Jeremy Hammond
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/15 18:31:25
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I will have more time this weekend to mess with it. I shall report back if I find anything out about this issue. Thanks for adding your thoughts to the issue.
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Jeremy Hammond
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/17 19:19:19
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I think I have tracked down the issue, or at least how to navigate around it. I was using Audio Creator to create a one off audio grab I described above. I began thinking about it and my thoughts are that I should be able to use my preferred audio device for whatever I deem necessary for the task at hand. Armed with that conviction, I set about trying to do just that -whatever I was trying to do.
If you allow windows to monitor the Octa-Capture's main outputs, you need to make sure you disable this feature before going back to Sonar. By doing this, I was able to get the driver to change the sample rate.
As to the sample rate change mid project, the only thing I have found that could have done this lies in the area of the windows sound device properties under the advanced tab. There, under default format the 2 channel, 16 bit, 48K (DVD Quality) was selected.
Could this setting have been enabled on the Octa-Capture as well? And if so, could it have overridden the default settings in Sonar for new projects?
At the end of the day, maybe the problem was a PICNIC error and I just forgot that I made the change at some point. Who knows. Regardless of how the issue was introduced, I have found a satisfactory resolution and want to extend my thanks to you guys for responding to my initial query.
Let me know if I need to further elaborate on this solution.
Cheers!
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Re:Sample Rate Mysteriously Changed Mid Project...
2013/03/17 20:01:51
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